Has the Bible Been Corrupted?

• God knew that the original autographs of the New Testament would not survive and that His Word would have to be transmitted through the centuries via copies.

• The transmission process is sufficiently flexible for God’s Word to be conveyed adequately by uninspired, imperfect copyists.

• The amount of manuscript evidence for the text of the New Testament is far greater than that available for any ancient classical author.
  
  
• The vast majority of textual variants involve minor matters that do not alter any basic teaching of the New Testament: No feature of Christian doctrine is at stake.
  
  

• We can confidently affirm that we have 999/1000^ths of the original New Testament intact. The remaining 1/1000^th pertains to inconsequential details.
  

• Atheists, skeptics, and liberal theologians are incorrect when they assert that the Bible has been corrupted in transmission. The evidence proves otherwise.

by Dave Miller, Ph.D.